Doodle: Live Wallpapers

Patrick Zedler

About this app

Doodle is an open-source app that provides colorful live wallpapers with auto dark mode and power-efficient animations.
The wallpapers are based on the original Doodle live wallpaper collection of the Google Pixel 4 and the unreleased Material You wallpaper collection of the Pixel 6, extended with additional wallpapers from Chrome OS.
The app is not just a copy of the original wallpapers, it's a complete rewrite without the permanent animations to save battery and storage space. In addition, there are many customization options to match your preferences.

Features:
• Stunning wallpaper designs and Pixel feeling
• System dependent dark mode
• Power-efficient parallax effect on page swipe or when tilting the device
• Optional zoom effects
• Direct boot support (immediately active after device restart)
• No ads and no analytics
• 100% open-source

Advantages over original Pixel 4 live wallpapers:
• Permanent animations (when tilting the device) are optional
• Support for Android 12 color extraction
• Exclusive "Material You" live wallpapers
• No battery-hungry 3D engine
• Improved text contrast (dark text for light themes instead of white text with shadow)
• Many additional customization options
• Rendering works well even on less powerful devices (very efficient rendering engine)
• Also suitable for larger devices like tablets (scaling option available)
• Tiny installation size

Source code and issue tracker:
github.com/patzly/doodle-android

Translation management:
www.transifex.com/patzly/doodle-android

Ratings and reviews

The perfect wallpaper app for those who appreciate Material You. Only one request: more wallpapers! I gotta say although I have a few favorites, there needs to be more options to choose from! Kind of a bummer that I can't choose a new one now because I got tired even of my favorites. And of course, more customization (color, at least). But I think making more wallpapers should be a priority for this wonderful app.

I've been using this wall for over a month now. It's not as power hungry as other live wallpaper engines, it doesn't bombard you with a million ads like other apps. The zoom effects are cool to look at. But the only thing is, I feel there's less pixel 6-based wallpapers variety(that's why I installed it in the first place) maybe more doodly pixel 6 wallpapers next update? But it's worth more than the five stars I'm giving right now and it's also nice to see it compatible with OEM launcher too!👌

It's really good so far. But there is a very noticable lag when turning on the screen as the wallpaper tries to zoom in in the lockscreen. It's in its normal size at first then skips a frame to zoom in then smoothly zooms out for the animation (sometimes this doesn't happen and everything is smooth). Also changing the secondary colors doesn't seem to have an effect (Im using realme 8 RMX3085 model).

What’s new

This release adds support for Android 15 and refines the app experience with many improvements and fixes!